New Video of Dragon Quest X on 3DS Released by Square Enix

Square Enix is continuing to tease their port of Dragon Quest X to the 3DS with this five-minute epic trailer full of explosions, dramatic poses, interior decoration, boss battering, and other acts of derring-do. To help on-the-go adventurers accomplish these things the 3DS version of the game will have ZL and ZR buttons, a right analog stick, and a keyboard button virtualised on the 3DS's lower screen.

Dragon Quest X is also one of the games being offered as a free download with the purchase of any Japanese 3DS during the month of September. Playing Dragon Quest X on 3DS requires a paid subscription, the same as Wii/Wii U and PC versions, and is currently slated for release in Japan only.

Are you confident enough in Japanese to be tempted by the free download promotion or are you holding out for a western release? Wanting to carve your path in Astoltia as a weird rabbit cat-thing or looking to get your feet and the rest of you wet as a weddie? Let us know in the comments!

@Late Lawlz, k. You can pay the one payment of 240 dollars then, sub fee atm is 10 dollars worth in yen per month, and assuming they give it to us V3.0+ onwards, spite you playing at minimum, 8 hours a day, youll be done with all the content within at least 2 years, I say 2 years cuz they will be releasing content about half as fast as you can complete them, assuming you are playing 8 hours per day, 56+ a week.

P2P mmos people, you pay the sub so they keep servers working perfectly and keep bringing out content, why is this so hard to understand?

@Late I want to buy a game and play it - also I want to play it 10 or 20 years later. When they shut down the online for Monster Hunter Tri only a year after it was released - that boiled my gizzard. But I would still get Dragon Quest 7 on the 3DS if they put it out here.

I haven't played a decent DQ game since 2008... im starting to resent Nintendo on this issue... Swords was a flop and DQX has a subscription with no NA release date... One of my favorite franchises... she is dying

@vitalemrecordsMonster Hunter Tri's servers were up for about 3 years, 2010-2013.

I'm still hoping they bring the Wii U version over. This is the one MMO I'm actually interested in playing. I probably wouldn't play too long because of the subscription fee, but I'd still get a few months out of it, which is longer than most games.

Why won't Nintendo of America publish this game? Hell, why doesn't Square-Enix localize ANY of their games that appear on Nintendo consoles, Nintendo have always have to have done it themselves. They don't make Sony or Microsoft publish their own games.

@Alexandrious I Payed for Everquest for 5 years and I would pay for this. Especially on 3ds. I would love to see how far the 3DS can be pushed with an online game of this caliber. They haven't pushed the 3DS at all with an online game of this quality. Heck I bet the 3DS could probably run the original Everquest game.

@vitalemrecords K, theirs always private servers 10 or 20 years later, heck with the technology that will come out by then even you would be able to host a private DQX server coming that time, then you can play it free! Course by then wed have full on Virtual reality probably and you wouldnt even remember DQX or any games you would play "10 or 20 years later".

@Alexandrious it doesn't matter it will be a blockbuster for all the systems it comes too. People are going to get a great chance to play a great game. That right there is the reason Dragon Quest X should have already been ported. Even with a monthly charge people will buy it like hotcakes. Make absolutely no sense why its not already out on Wii and Wii-U all over the world

@Alexandrious: I didn't really mean it that way. I should choose my words more carefully instead of posting quick thoughts. I meant I'd rather play a single player Dragon Quest on my 3DS/Wii U. I'm not fan of subscriptions in games mainly because I tend to switch from one game to another before I've beaten the one I was playing. Paying $10 for a month means I should play that game as much as I can in that time period for it to be worth my money. I have no idea how long it'll keep my interest and if/when I start playing again how fast I decide to move on to another game again. I hope the next installment will be single player again as I just prefer single player RPG over MMORPG even if there is no subscription fee. I've never spent more than two weeks on any MMORPG but I sure can spend a lot of time playing something like Pokémon. I don't know why it's like that. I'm just weird.

@Alexandrious True that but how about making it download only on 3ds. That would tick some people off including myself. However I think people would eventually think HEY I WANT TO PLAY THAT! It would also be a step in the direction of download only games. That sure helped Steel Empire didn't it?

@Windy Trust me, its better if they at least, bring it to PC. PC is the greatest mmo platform, everyone has a PC even minimum wage workers, the game has low system reqs that a 300 dollar PC bought from retail can run it. Also internet infrastructure is better in Japan than it is here, if your gonna stream a mmo game to the 3DS like that here, you'll need a premium internet service like Cox Cables inhome wifi, or Verizons Fios Routers, and alot of places in the U.S just does not have that.